coming up at 4:30, news s meagan fitzgerald talks with father john ensler who has known cavanaugh sinceung was an altar boy. >>> now we turn to the crisis at e border. today is the court-order dead line for the trump adnistration to reunite 100 children upped the age of 5 with their migrant parentson this afterno roughly half of them are still separated. the justice department says that 54 children are back with their families. five others are undergoing final background checks. reunions will be a bit more difficult for the rest some of the parents have already been deported. president trump blamed the parents for that earlier today. >> ewell, i h a solution. tell people not to come to our untry illegally. that's the solution. don't come to our country illegally. the department of justice has until july 26th to reunite all famiates sep at the border by president trump's zero tolerance policy. >>> right now an urgent search is underway in prince william county for aissing teenage girl. 15-year-old anna mariai hernanez-rodriguez has last seen last thursday. call police if you know where s

. >> meagan fitzgerald takes s inside today's emotional memorial service. >> reporter: this is how an entire community says good-bye a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down on the steps of her own house. her casket carried by a horse-drawn carriage making its way to the neighborhood where makiyah wilson grew up and where she died. >> i think of her almost every day. because that was my cousin. i've been trying not to cry. ♪te >> rep songs were sing and t -- sung and the life of a beautiful little girl was remembered while ministers, pastors made a desperate plea o the congregation, asking the community to help police find the four gunmen who took away an innocent life. >> this is an outright violation -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: the family says their prayer is that soon little girl gets the justice she deserves. >> she wanted to do basketball in fifth grade. i think she had a right to do that because i'm doing basketball and i think she could have done it. they're just messing with peoples dreams. >> reporter: reporting live, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >>> a violent confrontati that

news 4's meagan fitzgerald is outside a metro station connected to the string of violence. meagan? >> reporter: yh, doreen. police say in all three of these cases these women would get off at the metro station at the twinbrook station and walk home and the suspect would followe them bef he would attack. >> we had a total of three cases, one ranges, an attempted rapend then ultimately rape and murder of another female. >> reporter: all of these cases have been linked to this man, to the last is a madna-created of what investigators believe he looked like back in the '80. to the right is what they think heooks like now. >> we alw ss we had the child as big as her. >> reporter: one victim was this woman who neighbors say was a talented researcher hand musician. she was walking home from the metro one nightn october of 1914 and before she could make it inside her home. >> i remember coming home thatn eveninghere were cop cars. >> reporter: police say this suspecterttacked h at her doorstep before she was raped and killed. her body was found in backyard days later. >> but i always wonde

news 4's meagan fitzgerald explfns how an offer assistance led to an arrest, dropped charges and then had a lawsuit. >> put your hands behind your back. >> reporter: many legal experts sayhis arrest should have never happened. >> i was ubering. i headedome south on jefferson davis highway. >> reporter: 27-year-old george wingate says he was on hisho wa to his family when his check engine loyalty came on and he pulled over on the side of the home. >> she's home waiting on me and i've got kids, you know, that i need to watch in the morning. >> reporter: but he didn't make it home that nig i april 2017. the stafford county sheriff dashcam video shows the moment that deputy fulfordul up and asked for the man's i.d. >> have i committed a crime? >> wavt's that? >> i committed a crime? >> i didn't say you did. >> all right then. >> you'red still requio identify yourself. >> am i free to go? >> not right n, no. >>m i being detained? >> you're not detained. >> so i'm free to go? >> no. >> reporter: not long ago deputy fulford arrests win gait for failing to identify himself, obstruction of jus

news s meagan fitzgerald explains how the encounter einvolved io anarrest, dropped charges and then a lawsuit. >> put your hands behind your pack. s >> reporter: t how a late-night drive home back in apl 2017 ended for 27-year-old george wingate. >> i was ubering and headed home on jefferson davis highway. >> reporter: his check enginee light cn and pulled over to the side of the road. moments later the stafford county dashcam vid captured when this officer came by and asked for i.d. >> did i commit a crime? >> you didn't. required toill identify yourself? >> am i free to go? >> not right now, no. >> am i beingde ined? >> you're not being detained. >> so you're free to go? >> lno. er the deputy arrested him for obstruction of justice and resisting arrest and all of those charges were lat dropped. >> if i'm not being detained i'm free to go. >> a virginia-based criminal attorney say he sees why the judge threw out the case. >> he walked up to the gentleman and keeps insisting on him identifying himself. it's called aua conse contact and a consensual contact is basically two people, doe

the gunmen still haven't been caught.ws 4's meagan fitzgerald has more now on what -- how she's being remembered. >> reporter: family andds fri who knew makiyah wilson will tell you that she was their princess. so today with the help of an entire community, they made sure this 10-year-old girl received a fairytale farewell. her casket carried by a horse-drawnarriage making its way to the neighborhood where makiyah grew up and where she died. >> we reay are trying to hold strong because this is, like, this is a hard thingor us cause that's my little cousin. >> reporter: hundreds of family members and friends trying to stay strong while makiyah's life was remembered. id makiyah had a great love for sports, music and games. >> reporter: makiyah wilson had hopes and dreams for a future that was sure to be bright, but 6ton julyh, she was shot andki lled when four gunmen opened fire in the courtyard of her home. >> this is an outright violation and you should be held accountable for it, whoever they are. >> reporter: at her funeral, faith leaders urged the community te help pol find the men

news 4's meagan fitzgerald reports how it led to an arrest, dropped charges then a lawsuit. >> reporter: take a look at this sheriff county's dashcam video. george wingate pulled over to the side of the road back in april of 2017 because he was having car problems. stafford county sheriff's deputy pulls up and asked him for his i.d. >> have i committed a crime? >> reporter: what's that? >> have i committed a crime. >> i didn't say you did. you're still required to identify yourself. >> are you free to go? >> not right now. >> am i being detained? >> then i'm not free to go. >> reporter: moments later he was arrested forwailing to s his i.d. and obstruction of justice and resisting arrest. >> put your handsbehind your back. all charges have been dropped and virginia-based criminal defense attorneys like t walls, sawall wallsh sees why. >> this called consensual contact. >> reporter: wingate believes he was targeted because of his race and that's why he's suing. a>> with officer civilians of our color and, you know, it's time that we stand up for our thits and, you know, do the right way.

news's meagan fitzgerald has more from the emotional service: >> reporhe was a little princess. a and community made sure she had a fairytale farewell. makiyah wilson's family followed behind as her casket was carried in a horse-drawn carriage, leaving the church and headed to clay ter race, the neighborhood she gw up and where she died. an entire streets as her procession rolled by. >> i think of her almost every day. that was my c littlesin. i've been trying not to cry. >> reporter: hundreds of family members and friends trying t stay strong while makiyah's life was remembered. >> makiyah hadov a great for sports, music and video games. >> reporter: makiyah wilson had hopesnd dreams for a future that was sure to be bright, but on july 16th she was shot and killed when g fourmen opened fire in the courtyard of her home. >>his is an outright violation and you should be -- whoever they are,e can't sleep, we can't eat. >> reporter: at her funeral,de faith l urged the community to help police find the men who ended makiyah's life. >> some of you know them. no, no, no, not you but o

les get t news 4's meagan fitzgerald who just talked with her a few minutes ago. meagan? >> reporter: yeah, doreen makiyah's mother tells me she's absolutely devastated. she's so overwhelmed and she sayswith emotion she's in shock, can't believe that this happened. she tells me that she wasnse her apartment just behind me here. you can see people going in and out. she was doing hair when all of a sudden she sd she hea a barrage of gunfire like she's never heard before. she says 10-year-old makiyah had justeturned home from the community swimming pool and wanted to get some ice cree. she ger the money and she walked out the front door and that's g whenshots rang out. makiyah had collapsed to the floor. her 18-year-old daughter was also shot. jeanett she ran outside and held her other daughter along with her as makiyah tookt er lbreath. >> she wanted to go to the ice cream truck. she died with $5 in her hand. when she passed and took herat last b she was laying right in front of her doorway. >> i was in shock a saw so ch blood. i was basically trying to keep her calm. she k

news 4's meagan fitzgerald spoke to the peopl who remembe judge cavanaugh as an excellent student andtar athlete. >> the class of 1983, and it's now most -- it now most prominent member jud kavanagh. >> reporter: judge cav snoop dogg a hometown guy growing up in bethesda and captain of the sketball team at georgetown prep. >> we does something, he throws himself into it. >> reporter: dr. stephen oakes, his history teacher, says cavanaugh was a great student. >> one of his best traits has been compossse, during c debates, in a tight race. >> reporter: cavanaugh could join his fellow classmateeal rsuch as the next supreme court justice. he it's amazing to think that one dayy walked these hallss as student together. >> reporter: it's a proud moment for father john ensler as well. he calls cav nation a friend and whose man who is dedicated to his wife and two young gurlgs and even founding time to coach their basketball team. >> the motto of my jesuit hoy school -- >> he was there yesterday when president trum nointed cavanaugh to replace justice kennedy on the >> many of the priest that

news 1 owes meagan fitzgerald is back at the zone. meagan? >> reporter: yeah, wendy. makiyah wilson's family says obviousl they are grieving thi incredible logs, but they say it's made even worse because they kno the gunman who murdered their daughter is still on the run.ba oons and flowers, warm notes and pictures mark the spo of where 10-year-old makiyah wilson was shot and killed monday night. she was a fifth grader who loved sports and had just returned home from swimming. her mother says she was on her way to get a treat from the ice cream man. >> ice cream truck wanted to go to thece cream trucknd she died with the $4 in her hand. >> reporter: before she could make it these men pulled up and ed fire and by wednesday morning they recovered the getawa she's a baby and so years old. don't wish this on anybody. >> reporter: every day this mother is hopul that makiyah gets the justice that she deserves. now while police say they haven't made any arrests, they do tell us they have been flooded with tipsrom the community. makiyah wilson is expected to be laid to rest o

news s meagan fitzgerald joins us live to explainia y these cae s appear torelated. meagan? >> reporter: well, yeah, so leon, police tell that is two of the three cas are connected through dna, but all three cases, what they have in common is that these women would get ostomy tree here at the twin wook station andld be on their way before they would be violently attacked. >> we had a total of three cases. one rape, an attempted rape, and then ultimately rape and murder of another female. >> reporter: montgomery county police want you to take a good look at i theseges and the last what they say a serial rapist andr murde looked like in the early '90s. a newly created dna shows what they think he looks like now. police say it started in 1989 when this suspect sexually assaulted a woman in rockville. five years later in september 1994 police say he tried to rape a woman w while she walking home on twinbrook parkway.ay investigators she was able to fight him off, but he left this yellow flashlight behind. two weeks later -- >> i remember coming home that evening, and there were,

reporting in southeast, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> the d.c. government is considering stricter safety rules for children in car seats. a d.c. council committee heard testimony when a bill requiring all kids under the age of 2 be placed in a rear-facing child safe seat. about a dozen other states including virginia already have similar laws. supporters say that this protects young kids better in case of a crash. a d.c. council transportation coittee will likely decide whether to push this bill forward in september. for more of what you need t know about car seat safety, search child safety seats on the nbc washington app. 141 votes, that's all that separates the two leading democratic candidates fro montgomery county executives in a race that's still too close to call. council member mark elrich has a slight lead over david blair. the board of elections is reviewing provisional ballots one by one. they hope to have most of them counted by the end of today, and they hope to finish counting all provisional andal absentee bts by sunday. the final

news 4's meagan fitzgerald explain how police are using new technologies to unlock clues to this cold case. >> reporr: i have two little girls. it was very shocking. >> it's been nearly 24 years since this girl was attacked, raped and murdered right outside of her front door. investigators found her body days later in a wooded area next to her mom on martha terrace in rockville. her neighbors have never fo >> i remember coming home that evening, and thereere cop cars. >> reporter: montgomery county police say this is what the suspect looked lik in the early '90s. this newly released image is what they believe he looked like now.ig inveors say this man tried to rape another woman while she was walking on twinbrook parkway two weeks before he kled the woman. this yellow flashlight was recovered from the scene. inveigators also say he raped another rockville woman in 1989. >> the other thing these cases have in common is they all occurred around the same time frame, around 10:00 at night as the victims were leaving the area. the twinbrook me flow. >> these women and their families have w

meagan fitzgerald, thank you. >>> a tragedy this afterno a the weigh station on i-70. mes hobbes ofsalisbury, maryland, was under his tractor trailer fixing the brakes and state police say hobbes didn't put the parking brake on. e truck rolled over him killing him instantly. no one else was injured. >>> a woman stabbed a man inside an t arlington apartmes morning. police say that the man was attacked inside the apa oment washington boulevard and he suffered a wound to his xpoulder. he'sted to be okay. police arrested the womanor a time later. >> a gymnastics coach in loudoun was found guilty of slaulgt an 1 ear-old girl. brian nguyen of sterling was the arrested in january. the girl told her parents that inappropriately touched her while she was at mvgh gymnastics in ashburn and nguyen faces six years in prison. sentencing takes place in septem tr. >>ight some main roads are being reopened and major work still lies ahead. scott macfarlane joi us from the newsroom. scott? [ no audio ] >> having trouble hearing s ttt. back tt report in a minute. lots of questions after r

news 4's meagan fitzgerald live. what's it feel like down there? >> reporter: hey, guys. , yeah, the excitement overwhelming out here. so many people excited out here r this afternoon for the big annual parade that went down constitution avenue. we've got the concert behindhae here is going to kick off in a few hours and the icing on the urke, of , the fireworks. today is special for a lot of people. the cool thing about it is it something different to everybody. ♪ ♪ every year the streets are with excited spectators. >> i just really like it. >> it waseally cool. seeing a the people. >> american flags. >> reporter: young and have travelled from all over. >> i'm from toronto, canada. >> reporter: to see how the nation's capital celebrates our independence. cold, your ice cold, ice ice cold water. >> reporter:s it' definitely a scorching out here. the water, fans - s >> you want y in? >> reporter: almost anything you can cold you g canet your hands on certainly helps, but the warn weather enough to stop these folks from celebrating one of the most i

news 4's meagan fitzgerald joins us from northwest d.c. >> reporter: it's bee three days since makiyah wilson was gunned down on the front steps of her door behind mow here, and every day her parents get eveni more a and hopeful that police will give their family justice. every day more and more love and support comes in to the family of makiyah wilson. neighbors, even strangers are a cked and saddened that 10-year-old girl was murdered. monday night police crimeme s were rolling when these suspects pulled up into theya cour releasing a barrage of bullets before driving off. police found this black infinity sedan wnesday morning. she's 10 years old. >> reporter: but makiyah's family is having a. hard ti >> she's 10 years old. i hear stories about is, but don't wish this on no mother. >> reporter: police tell us that they have been receiving a lot of tips that they areupollowing n but, of course, as we've mentioned no arrests have beend as for makiyah wilson's funeral, we're told she will be laid to rest on wednesday. back to you. >> all right.u meagan, thank o much. >>> "first on 4:00,

chris gordon is in -- meagan fitzgerald bringing us sights and sounds from around the capital. hi, meagan. >> reporter: hey, jim. you know our city throws a heck rather, y, a parade, when thousands of people pack constitution avenue, despite how oppressive this heat is today. you know, what was really cool wasching people who came out here for the very first time. ♪ ♪ >> it was really cool seeing all the people.ep >>ter: no one celebrates the fourth of july quite like d.c. >> i am just lost for words. >> i feel so emotional when i come here and see is. >> reporter: there's just something special about celebrating our independence in the nation's capital. where you're reminded through the men w anden parading down constitution avenue of why our nation is so great. >> get our icecold, ice cold, ice cold water. >> reporter: there is no doubt about it, you'll want some ice cold water to cool you down because the heat can be overwhelming. >> there is an american flag, jackie. >> reporter: it wasn't enough to stop kirby bowling to bring his family down from laurel, maryland. >> my chi

meagan fitzgerald, thank you. >>> the heat and humidity are not keeping people away from the the nationalfar. crowds getting ready to enjoyto the capifourth cop sirte. we'll check in with darcy spencer inside therea as crowds continue to build lat this hour. >>> if you plan to take the metro or metro bus to your fireworks destination, the transit agency tonight is blaming delays on a crdinated action by uniontr workers. me says bus and train opt urposely reporting late to work today. metro's had to do its best shifts and keep everything moving. because it's a holiday, metro ip ating closer to a saturday schedule anyway. we haven't seen a huge impact on rail service, but some metro bus lines are dealing with delays tonight. the unionays it's fed up with mistreatment of itsbe m and disrespect and asking for bargaining on good faith. the trains are running until 11:30 and they're going to start tooramp up for rush hour schedule. hopefully that will get everyone downtown in timerkor the fire shows. doreen, back to you. >> thank you. ndryland congressman steny hoyer is sg this independence in

rsws 4's meagan fitzgerald is talking to neigh about what happened. i just walked down to see where they were shooting, and so that wute shootingde of the yard. >> reporter: this woman didn't want to appear on camera but says she saw several kids shooting off fireworks in his back alley near 46th place and southeast on the evening of the fourth of july. but police say other people were shooting guns in the air. investigators say some 37 shell casings were found scattered around the area. one of those bullets grazing the face of an 11-year-old girl, a woman who lived nearby says that th child was her daughter's friend. shortly after she wastruck the young girl came backing on back door for help and got a call from her n saying police were outside. >> she called me and said aunty, there's a couple of fire trucks and police are outside. don't open your >> that little girl is expected to be okay. the itn't the kind of fourth fu july neighbors hoped for, but they are gra that no one was seerly hurt of the reporting in southeast. meaganfitzgerald, news 4. >

take the kids down to the all-star fanfest and that's going on at the cvention center and meagan fitzgerald is in the batting cage, pitching, batting and fielding. >> let's watch. >> it's been nearly half a century since the mlb all-star game in d.c. andck it's >> just wanted to bring her out to fanfest. of games. l >> and fanfest is serving up orme fun before the big event. >> this is the onity for the community to get their all-star experience, and not everyone can get to the all-star game or home runrb de >> the convention center offers enough to keep everyone busy and entertained. everything from games and pitching practice, can you try to outrun the pros. th i think i did amazing. never been t baseball hall of fame of cooperstown, no problem. there's aeuini m here, too. >> there you go. >> and, of course,rt the opity to meet some of the biggest names in baseball. >> i got to h meetl of famer earlier and got his signature on a baseball. >> and if you're up to it, there's even some batting cage action, too. >> all right. first you've got to make sure you've got the right bat. this one lo

reporting in fairfax county, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >>> a maryland man who stabbed his girlfriend and took offith his two children has reportedly confessed to the crime. we brought you the breaking news yesterday after the amb went out. dwight perry heard the alert and turned himself in at a firehouse. he's locked up tonight andar d with assault. his daughter was found safe at a daycare in adelphi. is 9-year-old son was with relatives. perry's girlfriend is expected to survive. >>> president trump is at the nato summit taking a contentious tone with our closest allies. his attitude is a sharp contrast to the upbeat tone before tonight's woing dinner when a dancer floated in on balloons. president trump slaed germany, accusing it of being controlled and held captive by russia because of a natural deal. >> germany is totally controlled by russiaau becse they're getting from 60% to 70% of their energy from russia and a new pipeline. now, if you look at is a captive of russia. >> the prident's first nato summit last year now seems like a warm-up. he shelved one of the newest nato memb

news 4's meagan fitzgerald is live with h the community is coping in the aftermath. orter: we've been talking to people all day, and this community is taking this tragedy really hard, especially these students who went to school wi conor. they are not only grieving his loss, but they are also worried that another one of their classmates won't survive. >> reporter: it didn't take long for the tight knit community to find out this no17-year-old c mcgowan was tagically killed in a car accident. >> i actually heard about it on facebook. >> reporter: police say he was speed when he lost control oraa car anding into a tree and his lacrosse teammates fiting for their life in the hospital. >> we all played sports together. it's just -- it'seabreaking. >> reporter: these pictures were taken wednesday night of his classmates and friends coming together onfo theball field at robinson's secondary school, lighti candles, holding one another while remembering conor's life and praying that mmates survive. >> it breaks my heart. it does. i feel sad for hisly fa right now. >> reporter

news 4's meagan fitzgerald is in fairfax county to tell us how this community coping. megan?ey are taking it prty hard, especially students. in fact, grief counselors were on hand for several hours to tro elp the students who are grieving the loss of copper but it's not just that.so they are a worried that theyse may l another classmate. >> i'm like wow, that could have beenme, one of my sisters, it's scary. >> the impact of 17-year-old conor mcgowan's death is affecting an eire community in different ways. >> when i saw the kided i said i need to consider how dangerous these roads are because sometimes you don't realize how fast you're going. >> reporter: conor died on tuesday after lose control of his car and crashing into a tree after speeding on fairfax d.ation r his lacrosse teammate is fighting for his life. phone coron's close friends like bennett. >> i'm really sad.e inown him most of my life. >> reporter: the grief is overwhelming. >> he up of my good friends in school, we would always do homework together and right now i just can't really comprehend it. like i just

. >> meagan fitzgerald, thanks. >>> d.c.are releasing new information in the search for relisha rudd. sh was 8 years old at the time. today d.c. police releasedhis age progression image of what she wouldy look like to at 12 years old. she was living at the d.c. homeless shelter and was left seen with jani khalil tatum who killed his wife and then himself during the search for relisha. searchers and volunteers were back out in the community handing outs missing pers photos and talking to residents. >>> a former uiversity of maryland basketball player has been lereased from custody after appearing in a prince george's county courtroom accused of raping a woman in ark college pa apartment on halloween, but his mother and his aunt today said he was raised in the church, and there is no way he could have done whate's charged with. dodd says the sex was consensual. he was released on his own recognizance and could not go near college park and had to surrender his passport. could not have any contact with witnesses. his tri f is se